Pentium 4 mobos

SharkyExtreme put up a review of the MSI 850 motherboard for the Pentium 4, running at US$300 apiece. Doing a quick check on PriceWatch, I found that Pentium 4 motherboards are listed at $292 and up, with the exception of one possible misprint for $240. If you add on the price of RDRAM, you can see why most system builders are uninterested in the Pentium 4 at the moment. The prices will not come down all that much for P4 motherboards until late 2001 or early 2002, I am guessing, when you will see them break the $200 barrier and start to become reasonable. The cheapest ones will support SDRAM and/or DDR at that point, but the RDRAM motherboards may still be up around $200. That's my best guess at this point based on the pricing of Intel's i850 chipset.